Repetition in Music

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I thought some of you might be interested in listening to this program I heard by chance on Sat. The host of the WNYC show Studio 360 has Guru (!) and fellow WNYC radio host John Schaefer of "New Sounds" in to discuss the function/meaning etc. of repetition in music. No real surprises but it makes for interesting listening.

http://www.wnyc.org/studio360/

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 26 August 2002 03:08 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...

Be curious to hear more on this.

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

Just when I thought this'd be a thread about Mike Patton repeating "redundant" during that Mr. Bungle outro... wrong room!

― Zimmer026 (Zimmer026), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

Lenny Kravitz to thread!

― Chili Congenitalz, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

jules shear and marty wilsson-piper to thread with "repetition repetition repetition" from their long-forgotten (if'n fact anyone knew of its existence in the first place, which is not at all guaranteed) collabortion the third party, which was kinda good.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

thirteen years pass...

I feel like there was another great essay last year with the same subject but this one is also v good:
https://aeon.co/essays/why-repetition-can-turn-almost-anything-into-music

I've been thinking about sampling recently, in part because Youtube's algorithms keep suggesting I watch videos defending sampling as an art form and I keep hate-reading comments about how sampling is lazy

I've also been listening to playlists featuring sources for famous samples and while they're usually awesome soul jazz jams, I often find myself wishing they would repeat the phrase I recognize instead of going in all sorts of funky directions

and so I think to myself if perhaps the genius of early hip hop producers (and pioneers in genres with similar focus on repetition like house and techno) was to recognize that even though mechanically repeating 8 bars over and over can seem a banalization of music, it's actually getting to the very core of one of the most enjoyable things about music: repetition

― niels, Friday, 26 October 2018 08:18 (seven years ago)

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